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From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Pau Aliagas <linuxnow@newtral.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: i386/x86_64 segment register issuses (Re: PATCH: Fix x86 segment register access)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:34:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050331003437.GB19573@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0503310015490.7060@pau.intranet.ct>

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:18:55AM +0200, Pau Aliagas wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:57:28AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> >>>There is no such an instruction of "movl %ds,(%eax)". The old assembler
> >>>accepts it and turns it into "movw %ds,(%eax)".
> >>
> >>I disagree. Violently. As does the old assembler, which does not turn
> >>"mov" into "movw" as you say. AT ALL.
> >
> >I should have made myself clear. By "movw %ds,(%eax)", I meant:
> >
> >	8c 18	movw   %ds,(%eax)
> >
> >That is what the assembler generates, and should have generated, for
> >"movw %ds,(%eax)" since Nov. 4, 2004.
> 
> Could this be the reason for the reported slowdown in the last six months?
> 

Can you elaborate?


H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050326020506.GA8068@lucon.org>
2005-03-27 22:24 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-28 15:47   ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-28 17:46     ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-28 18:22       ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30  0:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30  1:53       ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30  2:44         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30  4:00           ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 15:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2005-03-30 16:23               ` linux-os
2005-03-30 21:11                 ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 21:08               ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-30 22:18                 ` Pau Aliagas
2005-03-31  0:34                   ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2005-03-31  0:57                     ` Pau Aliagas
2005-03-31  1:52                       ` H. J. Lu
2005-03-31 10:19                   ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 15:25           ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 19:17   ` PATCH: i386/x86_64 segment register access update H. J. Lu

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